The Zone of Interest (2023) Analysis
If you walked away from your first viewing of Best Picture nominee The Zone of Interest disappointed – good. That’s the point. Spoilers ahead.
If you walked away from your first viewing of Best Picture nominee The Zone of Interest disappointed – good. That’s the point. Spoilers ahead.
We got a little bit of everything in the horror genre in 2023: legacy sequels, big studio popcorn flicks, experimental arthouse films, jaw-dropping feature debuts. The continued growth of the direct-to-streaming market is paying dividends for fans of diverse, albeit lower budget, movies. Whatever your particular brand of scary movie, you’ll find something to like in the list below. 10. Birth/Rebirth A mourning mother encounters an antisocial, genius medical worker who just might have a…
20. Cobweb This film spins a beautiful web of atmosphere and tension. The action takes place in a gloomy, creaky old house where you can practically feel the monsters under the bed, in the closet – or in the walls. Woody Norman plays the role of dejected and perpetually horrified little boy wonderfully; you really care for him when his parents start acting more and more unhinged. Antony Starr in particular threads the needle between…
#40. The Sacrifice Game #39. Night of the Hunted #38. Kids vs. Aliens #37. V/H/S/85 #36. Haunted Mansion #35. Cocaine Bear #34. It’s a Wonderful Knife Another entry in the surging high-concept-teen-slasher subgenre (ala Happy Death Day, Freaky, Totally Killer), but this one isn’t quite as fun of a ride. Justin Long and Joel McHale are somewhat wasted here, as the writing gives them very little to do and there isn’t much in the way…
Listen, there were certainly terrible horror movies that came out last year that I have no idea existed. I don’t intentionally go digging for bad films. In fact, I try to only watch movies that were recommended, or have some buzz, or have people working on them that I enjoy – or they have, at the very least, an interesting trailer. So saying “the worst” here is absolutely not fair – none of these movies…